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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The structural transformation of a traditional economy dominated by primary activities into a modern economy where high-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain such structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856306
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Technology foresight and industrial strategy in developing countries
Pietrobelli C.; Puppato F. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2015
industrialised countries could endeavour to achieve, being more engaged and interested in frontier and new to the world innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254930
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States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World
Benito, Gabriel; Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNE activity associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856436
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Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: Some clarifications and a research agenda
Narula, Rajneesh; Dunning, John H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper revisits an earlier contribution (Narula and Dunning 2000) and considers how economic globalisation has changed the nature of the MNE, MNE motivations, the MNE subsidiary and the modalities by which they interact with domestic economic actors. Most developing countries, however, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856446
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The unequal effect of India's industrial liberalization on firms' decision to innovate: Do business conditions matter?
Bas M.; Paunov C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
India, on firms innovation performance. Our results show that larger and more productive firms in liberalized industries …
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A New Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment, Industrial and Innovation Policies
Costa, Ionara; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper deals with the interplay between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the industrial and innovation policies …
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Industrial policy for growth
Farla, Kristine - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
This study distinguishes between industrial policy that stimulates incumbent industry development, `pro-business policy', and industrial policy that promotes the development of free markets, `pro-market policy'. We find that there is a positive relation between the level of countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712281
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A Framework for Policy-Oriented Innovation Studies in Industrialising Countries
Bartzokas, Anthony; Teubal, Morris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2001
research questions and in the development of analytical work in policy-oriented innovation studies. Despite the fact that … Evolutionary and Innovation Studies theories have offered new ways of incorporating policy, little explicitness in this regard has … conceptual framework for the design and implementation of innovation policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712356
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New Technologies and Indian SMEs
Lal, Kaushalesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005
The study identifies and analyses the factors that influenced the adoption of new technologies in SMEs. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been used as proxy of new technologies. The findings of the study suggest that industry-specific characteristics such as skill- and...
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